Spoiler de Dawn of the Empire (108/108)
Personalidades
Brotherhood (1)
Shinsei
1F / 15C
–HR / 0G / 5PH
Monk • Mentor of the Kami • Double Chi • Unique. You
must bow five cards you control as an additional cost of playing Shinsei.
Shinsei need not bow to cast Kihos. Reaction:
When paying for a Thunder Persoanlity, bow this card: Reduce the Thunder’s Gold
cost to 1. Open: Once per turn, even
if this card is bowed, target a Kami Personality. Bow him.
Crab (4)
Hida
14F / 8C
–HR / 0G / 5PH
Crab Clan Kami • Samurai • Double Chi • Yu 20 • Unique • Loyal • Will
not enter play normally unless another player has more than 10 Family Honor. Battle: If Hida is face-up in one of
your Provinces, you are the Defender, and the current attacking army contains a
unit, bring Hida into play in your army in the current battle. Battle: Target an attacking unit.
Destroy it. “I did not choose this world,
but I will protect it.”
Hida Atarasi (Diamond y Lotus)
10F / 5C
0HR / 15G / 3PH
Crab Clan Thunder • Samurai • Disciple of the Kami • Yu 12 • Experienced
7 • Unique • Loyal. May overlay any Crab Clan Samurai you control. Reaction: Before Atarasi is destroyed
other than as a cost or effect of a card you own, remove him from the game:
Even if Atarasi is bowed, gain an additional Attack Phase after your next
Dynasty Phase.
Hiruma (Diamond y Lotus)
5F / 4C
0HR / 11G / 4PH
Crab Clan Samurai • Disciple of the Kami • Scout • Unique • Loyal. Battle: Discard a card: Once per
battle, Ranged 5 Attack. Battle:
Target a Personality in your home not targeted by Hiruma this turn. Move him
into Hiruma’s battlefield. Battle:
Target a Personality you control in the current battle not targeted by Hiruma
this turn. Move him home.
Kaiu Norio (Diamond y Lotus)
4F / 2C
–HR / 7G / 2PH
Crab Clan Samurai • Siege. Norio has +1F/+1C while he has a Follower. Reaction: After Norio enters play, bow him:
Norio may not be targeted by cards other players own until the start of your
next turn. Of all the weapons Kaiu has
crafted, be most wary of his sons.
Crane (4)
Doji
8F / 14C
10HR / 0G / 6PH
Crane Clan Kami • Samurai • Courtier • Double Chi • Unique • Loyal • Will not enter play unless you have
taken at least three Political actions this turn. While you control Doji, cards
focused by Personalities you control return to your hand instead of being
discarded when the duel ends. Battle:
Once per target per battle, target an attacking unit. Move it home bowed.
Doji Hayaku (Diamond y Lotus)
3F / 4C
0HR / 9G / 4PH
Crane Clan Samurai • Daidoji Family Founder • Harrier. When
paying for Hayaku, you may reduce his Gold cost by 2 and permanently give him
–2 Personal Honor. Battle: Once per
battle, target an opposing card. Give it a Force penalty equal to Hayaku’s
Personal Honor. Reaction: Before
Hayaku is destroyed: Produce a ranged attack with a strength equal to Hayaku’s
Personal Honor.
Doji Konishiko (Diamond y Lotus)
3F / 5C
5HR / 12G / 4PH
Crane Clan Thunder • Courtier • Disciple of the Kami • Experienced 7 •
Unique • Loyal. May overlay any Crane Clan Courtier you control. Reaction: After Konishiko enters play
or overlays: Once per game, search your hand and discard pile for a Political
Action card. Permanently give her one of its Limited or Open actions;
she may take the action once per turn and bows as an additional effect. Remove
the card from the game.
Kakita (Diamond y Lotus)
4F / 6C
10HR / 12G / 5PH
Crane Clan Samurai • Disciple of the Kami • Duelist • Unique • Loyal.
Personalities must focus at least once per duel if able. After each duel, the
winner draws as many cards as he focused. Before the first focus or strike of a
duel Kakita is in, set his Chi to the other Personality’s Chi. The other
Personality loses Double Chi. Kakita
may only focus once, but with one to three cards. These effects end when the
duel ends.
Dragon (4)
Mirumoto (Diamond y Lotus)
5F / 6C
8HR / 13G / 4PH
Dragon Clan Thunder • Samurai • Duelist • Disciple of the Kami •
Experienced 7 • Unique • Loyal. May overlay any Dragon Clan
Samurai you control. After each duel, the winner draws a card. Before the first
focus or strike of a duel Mirumoto is in, set his Chi to the other
Personality’s Chi. The other Personality loses Double Chi. Mirumoto focuses first, with 1 or 2 cards, and must
focus if able. These effects end when the duel ends.
Mirumoto Hojatsu (Diamond y Lotus)
4F / 6C
5HR / 12G / 4PH
Dragon Clan Samurai • Disciple of the Kami • Duelist • Unique. Limited: Once per turn, search your
Fate deck for a Weapon. Show it. Put it in your hand. Battle: Bow a Weapon you control: Once per turn, target a
Personality opposing it. The Personality’s controller targets a Personality in
the Weapon’s army. The first Personality issues an unrefusable challenge to the
second.
Togashi
10F / 13C
4HR / 0G / 5PH
Dragon Clan Kami • Creature • Samurai • Shugenja • Cavalry • Unique •
Loyal • Will not enter play unless you brought a Black Scroll
or Ring into play this turn. Limited:
Once per turn, targte a Personality you control. Search your deck for a Black
Scroll. Attach it to the Personality, ignoring costs. Limited: Once per turn, target a Ring you control. Put it in your hand.
Play a different Ring from your hand.
Togashi Kaiteru (Diamond y Lotus)
3F / 4C
4HR / 7G / 2PH
Dragon Clan Wanderer • Monk • Tattooed. Reaction: After he enters a duel, bow a
Monk Personality you control: If Kaiteru has no Weapons, give him +2F/+1C. If
this is done during a battle, these bonuses last until the battle ends. “The final lesson reveals that all lessons
are meaningless.”
Lion (4)
Akodo
13F / 12C
10HR / 0G / 5PH
Lion Clan Kami • Samurai • Double Chi • Tactician • Unique • Loyal • Will
not enter play normally. Akodo may perform any number of Tactical actions per
battle, once per printed action. After each Tactical action Akodo Performs,
give +2F to all Personalities in his army. Battle:
If Akodo is face-up in one of your Provinces and your army has a total Force of
at least 10, bring Akodo into play in your army.
Akodo Mirotai (Diamond
y Lotus)
3F / 3C
3HR / 8G / 2PH
Lion Clan Samurai
• General • Tactician. Limited: Once per turn, give Mirotai a 2F
Follower token. Mirotai loses the Tactician
trait. The Emperor commanded that all unaligned tribes be driven from his
Empire. The Lion were eager to oblige.
Ikoma (Diamond
y Lotus)
5F / 5C
7HR / 12G / 3PH
Lion Clan Samurai
• Disciple of the Kami • Tactician • Unique • Loyal. Battle:
If Ikoma’s army has less total Force and fewer units than the opposing army,
target an opposing Follower or an opposing Personality with no Followers.
Destroy the target. “There always comes a time to put honor aside.”
Matsu (Diamond y Lotus)
9F / 5C
6HR / 14G / 4PH
Lion Clan Thunder • Samurai • Disciple of the Kami • Experienced 7 •
Unique • Loyal. May overlay any Lion Clan Samurai you control. Reaction: After a non-Unique
Personality assigns to a defending army opposing Matsu: Once per Attack Phase,
target the Personality. Bow him. She
loves Akodo dearly, but she will be no man’s bride.
Mantis (3)
Kaimetsu-Uo (Diamond y Lotus)
6F / 5C
2HR / 12G / 2PH
Mantis Clan Founder • Samurai • Naval • Descendant of the Kami • Unique
• Loyal. After the first time this game Kaimetsu-Uo enters
play from a Province, gain a Province to the left of your leftmost Province. “I will carve my future from the heart of
destiny. We are the Mantis Clan, now and forever.”
Kindari (Diamond y Lotus)
4F / 3C
0HR / 8G / 1PH
Mantis Clan Samurai • Naval. Battle: Once per battle, target an opposing non-Naval unit.
Move it home bowed. If it moves, bow Kindari. “The courage of a Lion and the strength of a Crab? Perhaps the
brashness of a Lion and the stubbornness of a Crab. Either way, we are not
enemies to make.”
Unmei (Diamond y Lotus)
2F / 3C
–HR / 8G / 1PH
Mantis Clan Shapeshifter • Creature • Spirit • Unique.
Unmei has each of the following traits while you control a Mantis Clan Personality
with the same trait: Samurai, Shugenja, Courtier, Bushi, Scout, Cavalry, Tactician, Double Chi, Duelist, Naval. While
Unmei is a Samurai, it has +3F. While Unmei is a Shugenja, it has “Elemental Battle: Bow this card: Ranged
5 Attack.”
Naga (1)
Tashrak (Diamond y Lotus)
*F / *C
–HR / 7G / 0PH
Naga Abomination • Nonhuman • Unique. Tashrak’s
printed Force equals the number of
non-Naga Personalities other players control. Tashrak’s printed Chi equals the
number of Forests you control, plus 2. “An
ancient people turn in their sleep. Something has awakened in the forest, and
it feeds on Fu Leng’s army.” –Togashi
Phoenix (4)
Asako Moharu (Diamond y Lotus)
2F / 4C
6HR / 8G / 3PH
Phoenix Clan Air Shugenja. Elemental Open: Bow this card: Target a non-Personality card you
control. Straighten it. Until the end of the turn, neither Moharu nor that card
may straighten. The deaths of Shiba and
Isawa drove a rift that would not heal between the Asako and the Isawa.
Asako Yogo (Diamond y Lotus)
4F / 5C
4HR / 12G / 2PH
Phoenix Clan General • Fire Shugenja • Disciple of the Kami • Unique •
Loyal. Elemental
Battle: Once per battle, Ranged 4 Attack. Elemental Reaction: After the resolution of an action you took that
produced a ranged attack, or issued a challenge, against a Personality at Asako
Yogo’s battlefield, discard a card. Target the player who controlled the
Personality. He discards two cards.
Isawa (Diamond y Lotus)
6F / 5C
6HR / 14G / 3PH
Phoenix Clan Thunder • Void Shugenja • Disciple of the Kami •
Experienced 7 • Unique • Loyal. May overlay any Phoenix Clan
Shugenja you control. Isawa may cast Spells in your hand as if they were
attached to him, except those whose costs would remove the Spell from play.
Discard any Spell that he casts this way, after it resolves.
Shiba
10F / 10C
6HR / 0G / 5PH
Phoenix Clan Kami • Samurai • Double Chi • Unique • Loyal • You must bow three Phoenix Clan
Shugenja you control as an additional cost of playing Shiba. You may play
Follower, Item, and Spell cards from your discard pile as if they were in your
hand. Limited: Once per turn, target
an Honorable Dead Personality in your discard pile. Put him into play, ignoring
costs and restrictions.
Ratling (3)
A’tck (Diamond y Lotus)
5F / 3C
–HR / 7G / 2PH
Ratling Liutenant • Bushi • Creature • Unique. Open: Target a Ratling Personality.
Give him a Tribe trait that appears on another face-up Ratling in the game. “The Dark Kami destroy our world... Pups
afraid Tomorrow hound Nezumi forever. Nothing I say chase fear away.”
D’nir’ch (Diamond y Lotus)
3F / 3C
–HR / 6G / 1PH
Ratling • Creature. Battle:
Pay 2 Gold: Target a Ratling Personality at D’nir’ch’s battlefield. Give him a
+1F/+1C Weapon Item token. “Heaven fall,
destroy everything. Others run, but this our land until Tomorrow take it.”
Kan’chek (Diamond y Lotus)
3F / 3C
–HR / 6G / 2PH
Ratling Shugenja • Creature • Unique. Kan’chek may
cast Kihos in any discard pile as if they were in your hand. Kan’chek may cast
Spells in any discard pile as if they were attached to him, except those whose
costs would remove the Spell from play. Remove any card that he casts these
ways from the game, after it resolves. “Run
to the shadows. Run into Dream.”
Scorpion (4)
Bayushi
11F / 11C
–HR / 0G / 4PH
Scorpion Clan Kami • Samurai •
Courtier • Unique • Loyal • Will not enter play unless two non-Shadowlands
cards you own created Honor losses this turn. Bayushi need not bow to perform
Political Actions. Political Limited:
Once per turn, search your Fate deck for a Political Action card. Show it. Put
it in your hand. Limited:
Permanently reduce Bayushi’s Chi by at least 1: Target a Personality. Reduce
his Chi by the same amount.
Bayushi Nissho
(Diamond y Lotus)
3F / 4C
–HR / 7G / 1PH
Scorpion Clan Samurai. Battle: Once
per battle, target a Follower or Item at a battlefield and a Personality
controlled by that card’s controller. Move the Follower or Item to that
Personality. You may then straighten the Follower or Item. Bayushi knew his clan’s purpose before the Emperor’s throne was warm.
He sought his followers in the Shadows.
Shosuro (Diamond y Lotus)
6F / 5C
–HR / 12G / 2PH
Scorpion Clan Thunder • Disciple of the Kami • Ninja • Experienced 7 •
Unique • Loyal. May overlay any Scorpion Clan Personality you
control. Reaction: After Shosuro
enters play or overlays: Target a player. Discard all cards from his Provinces.
Battle: Remove five cards in any one
player’s discard pile from the game: Target a Ninja Personality you control and
a location. Move the Ninja to the location.
Yogo (Diamond y Lotus)
4F / 5C
–HR / 15G / 2PH
Scorpion Clan Fire Shugenja • Disciple of the Kami • Accursed •
Experienced Asako Yogo • Unique. Limited: Once per turn, target a Personality with less Chi than
Yogo. Straighten the Personality. Battle:
Shuffle Yogo into your decks from the current battle: Search your Provinces and
deck for any number of Personalities with a total Gold cost less than Yogo’s.
Bring them into play in your army, ignoring costs.
Unicorn (4)
Ide
(Diamond y Lotus)
5F / 5C
4HR / 12G / 3PH
Unicorn Clan Samurai • Courtier
• Disciple of the Kami • Cavalry • Unique • Loyal. Political Reaction: After a Political
action is taken by a player who has less total Force among all units in his
home than you have among units in your home: Once per turn, cancel the Action. Limited: Once per turn, search your
discard pile for an Item Ide has not retrieved this game. Put it in your hand.
Otaku (Diamond y Lotus)
6F / 5C
4HR / 14G / 4PH
Unicorn Clan Thunder • Disciple of the Kami • Battle Maiden • Samurai •
Cavalry • Experienced 7 • Unique • Loyal • May overlay any
Unicorn Clan Samurai you control. Otaku has +3F while attacking. Reaction: After a card you control in
the current battle is destroyed, bowed, or moved home by a card another player
owns: Once per battle, target a card opposing Otaku. Apply the same effect to
it.
Shinjo
12F / 8C
0HR / 0G / 5PH
Unicorn Clan Kami • Samurai •
Cavalry • Double Chi • Unique •
Loyal. Will not enter play normally. Units you control do not
bow from battle resolution. Battle:
If Shinjo is face-up in one of your Provinces, you are the Attacker, and there
is a defending unit in the current battle, bring Shinjo into play in your army.
Shinjo Bairezu (Diamond y Lotus)
3F / 3C
0HR / 10G / 2PH
Unicorn Clan Samurai • Cavalry. Bairezu has +2F
while attacking. Battle: Bow
Bairezu: Once per attack, if Bairezu is not in the current battle and has not
been in any battle during its resolution this Attack Phase, move him to the
current battlefield. If he opposes no Cavalry cards, straighten him. He may
produce a Ranged 3 Attack. “Always seek
the next horizon.” –Shinjo
Shadowlands (4)
Fu Leng
15F / 15C
–HR / 0G / 0PH
Shadowlands Kami • Double Chi
• Unique. Will only join a
Shadowlands player. Has a minimum Chi of 1. Will not enter play unless at least
two Personalities were destroyed or gained the Shadowlands trait this turn. Limited:
Once per turn per target, target a dead Personality in any discard pile. Put
the Personality into play under your control, ignoring costs and restrictions.
Permanently give him Undead and Shadowlands.
Mutsuhito (Diamond y Lotus)
5F / 5C
–HR / 12G / 0PH
Shadowlands Bushi • Unique • Lose 5 Honor. Reaction: After Mutsuhito enters play from a Province: Target a
dead Personality in your discard pile. Bring him into play, ignoring costs and
restrictions. “If I must bow to a Kami,
let it be the strongest.”
Oni no Hatsu Suru (Diamond y Lotus)
4F / 3C
–HR / 7G / 0PH
Oni • Nonhuman • Shadowlands • Lose 5 Honor. Reaction: After Oni no Hatsu Suru is destroyed by a card another
player owns, remove the Oni from the game: Lose 4 Honor. Create two 2F/2C Nonhuman Shadowlands Oni Personality
cards in your home or in the army the Oni was destroyed in.
The First Oni (Diamond y Lotus)
7F / 5C
–HR / 10G / 0PH
Shadowlands • Nonhuman • Disciple of the Kami • Inexperienced • Unique •
May not attach Items. Lose 10 Honor. This loss may not be copied or
modified. Limited: Once pert urn, target
an unbowed Personality you do not control. Lose 5 Honor. Declare an additional
Attack Phase, creating a battlefield not associated with any Province. The
First Oni assigns to attack there. The target assigns to defend there. After
the Attack Phase, resume the Action Phase.
Unaligned (5)
Hantei
14F / 14C
0HR / 0G / 6PH
Unaligned Kami • First
Emperor • Samurai • Courtier • Cavalry • Double Chi • Naval • Tactician • Unique. Will
not enter play unless a Kami Personality is in play. Reduce the Gold cost of
cards attaching to Hantei to 0. Reaction:
After a Political Action is taken: cancel it. Limited: Once per turn, target a non-Kami Personality. Gain
permanent control of the target.
Hantei Genji
5F / 5C
0HR / 8G / 5PH
Unaligned Emperor • Disciple of
the Kami • Samurai • Courtier • Double Chi • Unique.
You must discard the Imperial Favor or bow Personalities and Followers you
control with more than 12 total Force as an additional cost of playing Hantei
Genji. Political Limited: Bow Genji:
Target a face-up Personality in a Province. Bring the Personality into play
controlled by the Province’s player, ignoring costs and restrictions.
Muhomono (Diamond y Lotus)
5F / 3C
–HR / 8G / 2PH
Unaligned Bushi • Ogre • Nonhuman. Will not join a Shadowlands
player. Reaction: After Muhomono
enters play from a Province: You may search your Dynasty deck for an Ogre and
put it face-up in the Province instead of filing it normally. You may search
your Fate deck for an Ogre, show it, and put it in your hand.
P’an Ku (Diamond y Lotus)
0F / 1C
–HR / 9G / 0PH
Unaligned Mad Dragon • Creature •
Unique. Open: Once per turn, target another Personality. Permanently copy
the target’s printed Force. Open: Once per turn, target another Personality.
Permanently copy the target’s printed Chi. Open: Once per turn, target a
non-Dragon Personality. Copy one of the target’s abilities or boldface traits
until the next time this ability is used.
Tora (Diamond y Lotus)
0F / 3C
–HR / 10G / 0PH
Unaligned • Unique. Open:
Remove Tora from the game and pay Gold equal to the target’s Gold cost: If this
is the Action Phase, target a Personality controlled by the active player. Lose
1 Honor. The active player may move one non-tojen card from the target to a
Personality you control. If he does not, permanently gain control of the
target. “Only fools resist the Kami
openly. We must bide our time...”
Holdings (10)
Chamber of the Damned (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 2. Shadowlands • Lose 3 Honor. Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Battle: Bow this card and destroy an unbowed Holding you control
and own: Target an opposed Personality you control. Lose 2 Honor. Attach a Shadowlands Follower token to the
Personality. This Follower has a Force equal to the printed Gold cost of the
destroyed Holding.
Family Library (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 2. Bow this card: Produce 2
Gold. Limited: Destroy this card:
Target a discarded Personality in your discard pile and a face-up card in one
of your Provinces. Discard the face-up card and fill the Province with the
Personality. “Remember everything. I
shall require it upon my return.” –Isawa
Isawa Ariminhime
(Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 2. Retainer •
Spirit • Unique. Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Battle: If you are the Defender, once per turn, even if this card
is bowed, target a unit you control in the current battle. Give the current
Province a strength bonus equal to the unit’s total Force. Isawa’s sister now eternally guards the City of Sacrifice.
Seppun Hill (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 4. Unique. Will not enter play unless your Family Honor is at least 4
points above your starting Family Honor. Bow this card: Produce 4 Gold. Limited: Bow this card: Gain 2 Honor. Each
other player decides if he gains 1 Honor. The
Kami first appeared here, and it shall ever be holy.
Shrine of
Discussion (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 2. Bow this card: Produce 2
Gold. Open: Destroy this card:
Target a Personality. Permanently give him –2F/+2C and the Monk trait. “The Fortunes are divine, and the Tao worldly.
Together, the two speak perfectly to every soul.” –Hantei Genji
Standing Stones
(Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 2. Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Open: Once per turn, target a Troll or a non-Shadowlands Nonhuman
card. Until the end of the turn, the card has +2F while opposed. “We were
not the first to come here.” –Hantei the First
Temples of Gisei Toshi (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 2. Unique. Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Limited: Bow this card: Name “Item,”
“Follower,” or “Spell.” Look at the top 4 cards of your Fate deck. If any of
them is of the named type, you may show it then put it in your hand. “Only the Children of the Earth are welcome
here.” –Isawa
The First Dojo (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 4. Unique. Bow this card: Produce 3 Gold. Open: Bow a Kami Personality or Clan Champion you control: Once per
turn, even if this card is bowed, target up to three other Personalities you
control. Straighten them. The Kami were
born with many gifts. We must master ours.
The Tao (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 2. Unique. Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Elemental Open: Bow this card: Once per turn, straighten all Rings.
“Bring me pen and paper,” Shiba commanded
eyes wide with wonder.
Yobanjin Fortress (Diamond
y Lotus) Coste: 2. Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Battle: Bow this card: Create a 1F/1C Yobanjin Personality card in your army in the current battle.
Remove this Personality from the game after the battle ends or after two more
actions resolve. “Some who refused our rule forged petty kingdoms in the north.” –Shinjo
Events (8)
Call of Thunder (Diamond y Lotus) The next Unique Personality you
bring into play this game permanently gains the traits “May assign even if bowed.
After each time this card assigns, you may straighten it.” “Fu Leng wields the powers of both heaven and hell. Only those who have
also mastered both purity and corruption can defeat him. Only mortals.”
–Shinsei
Fall From the Heavens (Diamond y Lotus) Beginning with
you and proceeding once in turn order, each player may search his Fate deck for
a Kami card, show it, and put it in his hand. The mortal realm is a jealous realm, and Onnotangu knew his children
would never return. That would be punishment enough for their treachery.
Ki-Rin’s Exodus
(Diamond y Lotus) This card remains in play in your home. Battle: Discard this card: Target any number of units you control
in the current battle. Move them home. “Fu Leng has been defeated, but I
take no joy in our victory. Perhaps there is a land where the Ki-Rin might find
peace.” –Shinjo
One Thousand Years of Peace (Diamond y Lotus) After the next
time this game any player declares an attack, reduce the strength of each of
his Provinces by 3 until the beginning of his next turn. “The crow returned from the Shadowlands, feathers black as pitch, but
eyes clear with the wisdom it had gained. So began One Thousand Years of
Peace.” –Hantei Genji
Rebirth of the
Dark Kami (Diamond y Lotus) Target a dead Shadowlands
Personality in your discard pile. You may destroy a Personality you control as
a cost to reduce the target’s Gold cost to 0. Bring the target into play,
paying all costs and ignoring restrictions. Jigoku enslaved Fu Leng, but he
had mastered its power as well.
Test of the Kami
(Diamond y Lotus) Target a Personality. Permanently give him the Kami trait. This card remains in play
in your home. Open: Discard this
card: Target a Kami Personality you control and a Personality another player
controls; if used during a battle, these targets must oppose each other. The
Kami Personality issues an unrefusable challenge to the other. When the last
Akodo falls, so falls the last Hantei.
The Death of Ryoshun (Diamond y Lotus) This card remains in play in your
home. Open: Discard this card: Name
a card in play. Until the beginning of your next turn, actions on cards with
that title may not be used. “Ten Kami
fell from the sky. One fell to Jigoku, but only eight now walk the mortal
realm. Let not the mortals sully Ryoshun’s memory by speaking his name. Let his
grave be a place where only gods may enter.” –Hantei the First
The First Wedding (Diamond y Lotus) You may discard cards from your
hand with a total Focus value of exactly 4. If you do, either draw 3 cards or
target a player. If you target a player, he discards cards from his hand with a
total Focus value of at least 4 if possible, or shows his hand if he cannot. Hantei searched all of Rokugan for his
bride. In all the Empire, only one woman stirred the First Emperor’s heart
–Mioko, the simple daughter of a Crane fisherman.
Regions (5)
Hole In the Sky
(Diamond y Lotus) Unique. Reaction: After filling this Province
with a face-down Dynasty card, bow your Stronghold: Target the card. Turn it
face-up. Limited: Bow a Holding you
control and destroy this card: Shuffle all face-up Dynasty cards in all
players’ Provinces into their owners’ decks. From here, the Kami fell. From
here, dragons match the earth.
Kaiu Fortress (Diamond y Lotus) Unique. Does not count against the number of Regions a Province can
attach. Open: Pay 1 Gold. Even
during battles where you have no units, target one of your Provinces. If the
current strength is less than twice its base strength, give it +1 strength. “Trust in stone, my bushi. Stone dos not
betray.” –Hida
Kanishimi Toshi (Diamond y Lotus) Unique. Limited: Bow
your Stronghold and destroy this card: Target a Holding. Destroy it. Limited: Bow your Stronghold and
destroy this card: Target a Stronghold. Bow it. I do not know what the Nexumi once called this place. Now they only
call it Heaven’s Grave. It is a city of sorrow, a place where the living dread
to go.
Mountains of
Exile (Diamond y Lotus) Unique. Limited: Pay 3
Gold: Once per turn, target an Honorable Personality you control. Dishonor him.
Give him a 1F Cavalry Yobanjin
Follower token that gives its Personality the Cavalry trait. Battle:
Once per turn, even during battles at other Provinces, give all Yobanjin cards
you control +1F. “Those who will not obey will leave or be destroyed.”
–Hantei the First
Sacred Arena (Diamond y Lotus) Unique. Battle: Destroy
this card: Even during a battle at another Province, give each non-Unique Personality
in the current battle –2F. Token Followers have a maximum Force of 0. These
effects last until the battle ends. “The
blood of gods has fallen here. It is no place for mortals to linger.” –Doji
Actions (14)
Ancient Battlefield (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 2; Focus: 2. Delayed Terrain. Battle: You may target one of your Honorably Dead Personalities
that was destroyed since the end of your last turn by a card another player
owned or from having 0 Chi. Negate all non-permanent Chi penalties on him.
Bring the Personality into play in your army, ignoring costs and restrictions.
Blood Calls to
Blood (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. Reaction: Before a Personality you
control in the current battle is destroyed by another player’s card or by
battle or duel resolution: Target the Personality. Remove him from the game.
Permanently increase the strength of the current Province by his printed Force
or printed Chi. A Kami on his knees, an
eternal promise.
Deeds of My Ancestors (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 0; Focus:
2. Unorthodox Formation. Formed by
three Samurai Personalities. Battle:
Target a Samurai you control and a Personality opposing him, neither of which
has been targeted by this card. The opposing Personality’s controller decides
whether this card moves him home, or gives him –3F, or gives you Honor equal to
your Samurai’s Personal Honor.
Enmity (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 0; Focus: 4. Limited: Target a Personality you
control and a Personality controlled by another player. Until your Personality
leaves play, the other Personality gains +2C in duels against your Personality,
and the first duel your Personality wins against the other gives you 4
additional Honor. “Let there be enmity
between us, little man.” –Matsu
Extermination (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 0; Focus: 2. Battle: Target an opposed Personality.
Give him +3F. Battle: Target a
Personality. Give him a Force bonus equal to the number of units opposing him.
Fallen Thunder (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 2; Focus: 2. Kami Open: If this is the Action Phase,
target a Unique Personality. Bow him. During his controller’s next Straighten
Phase, the Personality may not straighten unless his controller discards a
card. “We shall see what you can do with
only six of your Thunders!”
I Can Swim (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. Political Limited: Target a Courtier
Personality you control. Permanently give him “Political Reaction: Before losing Honor from a card you own, bow
this Personality: Negate the loss. If it came from a Shadowlands card, this
Personality permanently loses this ability.” “Pain is the liar’s only reward, Bayushi,” Shinsei said. And Bayushi
understood.
Into the Darkness
(Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. Battle:
Target a Unique card you control and up to two units opposing it. Move the
opposing units home bowed. “My brother saved Shosuro when my pride forbade
me to aid her,” Bayushi said in a choked voice, “even at the cost of his own
life.”
Men of Cunning
(Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 1; Focus: 1. Open:
If this is the Action Phase, target a Personality. Lose 1 Honor. The
Personality’s controller may discard a card. If he does, draw a card.
Otherwise, bow the Personality. “I am not looking for men of honor, little
one.”
Shinjo’s Courage
(Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 2; Focus: 2. Costs 2 less Gold if you are a Unicorn
Clan player. Battle: Target a
Personality you control and either a Follower, or a Personality without
Followers, opposing him. Reduce the opposing target’s Force by the difference
in Personal Honor between the targets’ units’ Personalities. If the card’s
Force is now 0, destroy it. Gain Honor equal to your Personality’s Personal
Honor.
The Emperor’s
Blessing (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 0; Focus 2 Singular. Limited: Put this card into play in your home. Until it leaves play,
your Family Honor is considered 5 points higher for purposes of any player
lobbying. Reaction: After you play a
Kami card, discard this card from your home: Search your Fate deck for a Kami
card. Show it. Put it in your hand.
Until I Understand (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 2; Focus: 3. Kami Open: Play a Ring from your hand.
Until it leaves play, the Ring does not count towards an Enlightenment Victory.
If the Ring is still in play at the beginning of your second turn from now,
discard it. “Neither will I.” –Shinsei
Way of the Horse
and Bow (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 2; Focus: 3. Limited: Target a Samurai Personality
you control. Permanently give him the Cavalry trait and “Battle: Bow this Personality: Ranged 2
Attack.” Draw a card. Limited: Target
a Cavalry Samurai Personality you control. Permanently give him +1F and “Battle: Bow this Personality: Produce a
ranged attack with a strength equal to this Personality’s Chi.” Draw a card.
Where Gods Have Fallen (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 0; Focus:
2. Kami Immediate Terrain. Battle: Even if there is a Terrain in
play, destroy all other Terrains. While this card is in play, you may take the
action “Battle: Destroy this card:
Target an opposing player. He discards a card.”
Kihos (3)
Amaterasu’s Blessing (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 0; Focus: 4. Kiho Open: Target an unbowed Shugenja
or Monk you control: Target a Personality. Until the beginning of your next
turn, Personalities you own have a minimum Force and minimum Chi equal to their
Personal Honor. This effect is permanent on the target Personalities. “The
sun neves shone brighter than on the day of Hantei’s coronation.” –Akodo
Depths of Jigoku (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 0; Focus: 1. Kiho Limited: Bow a Shugenja you
control: Lose 3 Honor. Permanently give the caster the Shadowlands and Nonhuman
traits. Search your Fate deck for up to two Oni cards and/or Shadowlands
Followers. Show them. Put them in your hand face-up. At the end of the turn,
discard all of those cards still in your hand.
Lesson of Thunder
(Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. Battle:
Target an unbowed Shugenja or Monk you control: Target a non-Unique Personality
in the current battle opposed by a Kami Personality, a Thunder Personality, or
a Clan Champion. Destroy the non-Unique Personality. “Even gods must bow to
destiny.” —Shinsei
Spells (5)
Eclipse (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 3; Focus: 2. Limited: Bow this Shugenja: Target a
card. Until this Shugenja is unbowed or leaves play, actions on the target may
not be used. This Shugenja may remain bowed. “From such wonders are gods born.” –Kakita
Isawa’s Scrolls (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 6; Focus: 4. Unique. After this Spell enters play,
put five Scroll tokens on it. Limited:
Bow this Spell and remove a Scroll token from it: Search your Fate deck for a
Spell with a Focus value less than the number of remaining Scroll tokens. Show
it. Put it in your hand. “Can even Isawa
defeat my fallen brother?” –Shiba
Scribing the Tao (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 6; Focus: 3. After this
Spell enters play, target a Ring in play or in any discard pile. Copy one
ability from it to this Spell until this Spell leaves play. (Any cost of bowing the Ring becomes “Bow
this card”.) “So much weight placed
on the babbling of a simple old man.” –Shinsei
Sculpting Flesh (Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 5; Focus: 2. Maho Limited: Bow this Shugenja, who
must be a Bloodspeaker, and destroy a Poersonality you control and own: Lose 3
Honor. Create a Shadowlands Nonhuman
Goblin Personality card in your home. Set its printed Force and Chi to any
values that do not total more than the destroyed Personality’s Gold cost. “Serve me!”
Spirit Made Flesh
(Diamond y Lotus) Coste: 6; Focus: 3. Limited:
Bow this Shugenja: Target one of your Provinces. Search your Dynasty discard
pile and Dynasty deck for a Kami card. If you find one, discard a card from the
Province and fill it with the found card. The kitsu died, but the Kitsu
live.
Items (10)
Ancient Armor (Diamond y Lotus) +1F / +1C Coste: 4; Focus:
3. This card has +2F for every full 10 points of Family Honor you have. Reaction: Before the end of a Maneuvers
Segment, bow this card: If this unit is opposed, gain 2 Honor. “A samurai is protected by steel and
conviction.” –Kaiu
Ancient Sword (Diamond y Lotus) +1F / +1C Coste: 4; Focus:
3. Weapon. This card has +2F for
every full 10 points of Family Honor you have. Reaction: After this Personality enters a duel, bow this card: Gain
2 Honor. “A good start.” –Kaiu
Bayushi’s Mask (Diamond y Lotus) +1F / +1C Coste: 8; Focus:
4. Unique. Reaction: After the Cavalry Maneuvers Segment, bow this Personality
and destroy this card: Target any number of Personalities you control in
battlefields and any number of battlefields. Move those Personalities to those
battlefields any way you like. “You
cannot trust me.”
Broken Sword of the Lion (Diamond y Lotus) +0F / +0C Coste: 8; Focus: 4. Weapon
• Unique. Lose 3 Honor. Dishonor all
Lion Clan Personalities you own. Lion Clan Personalities you control have a
Force and Chi bonus equal to their Personal Honor. After each time a Lion Clan
Personality you control is restored to Honor, gain Honor equal to his Personal
Honor.
Eye of the Emperor (Diamond y Lotus) +1F / +1C Coste: 2; Focus:
3. Reaction: After an action targets
this Personality, remove this card from the game: If this Personality is a
Magistrate, cancel the action. Limited:
Destroy this card, or bow it if this Personality is a Magistrate: Target a
face-down card. Look at it. “Let each
lord have agents to enforce his laws. Let them carry his seal as a badge of
office.” –Doji
Fu Leng’s Sword (Diamond y Lotus) +4F / +2C Coste: 7; Focus:
4. Weapon • Shadowlands • Unique. Will only attach to a Shadowlands
Personality. Lose 10 Honor. This loss may not be copied or modified. Battle: Bow this card: Give all
non-Shadowlands Personalities at this card’s battlefield –1F/ –1C. “The Dark God’s sword
sings with the murder of ten thousand samurai.” –Ikoma
Golden Mirror (Diamond y Lotus) +0F / +0C Coste: 8; Focus:
4. Unique. Limited: Bow this Personality and discard a card: Target a
face-down card. Name a card type. Show the card. Discard it if it is of the
named type. (Cards in hands and decks are
face-down. Kihos are Action cards.) “Perhaps these mortals are not without
merit.” –Doji
Isawa’s Last Wish (Diamond y Lotus) +0F / +0C Coste: 10; Focus:
4. Inexperienced • Unique. While this card is bowed, all
other players have the ability “Open:
Once per turn, target a card other than a Wind, a Sensei, or a Ring. Remove it
from the game.” Limited: Bow this
card: Target a card other than a Wind, a Sensei, a Ring, or a Personality with
a card attached. Destroy it.
Onnotangu’s Hand (Diamond y Lotus) +3F / +1C Coste: 5; Focus:
4. Inexperienced Obsidian Hand • Unique.
Reaction: After a Personality enters
a duel with a Personality you control, bow this card: Target the Personality
you don not control. Bow him. “The right
to guard the scrolls is mine,” Bayushi swore. “Who among you would deny me?”
War Chariot
(Diamond y Lotus) +2F / +0C Coste: 3;
Focus: 2. Reaction: Before the end
of an Infantry Maneuvers Segment, bow this card: Target a player who controls
at least one unit opposing this card. He may bow one of those units. If he does
not, gain 2 Honor. “Such devices are clumsy, unseemly for a samurai to use.
I will not have them among my armies.” –Akodo
Followers (8)
Battul (Diamond
y Lotus)
4F / 0C
0HR / 6G
Yobanjin • Unique. While Battul is unbowed in an army, neither
actions on Wind cards nor actions that require discarding the Imperial Favor as
a cost may target cards in Battul’s army. “Only a weak man leans on a god.”
Focus: 4
Legion of the
Kami (Diamond y Lotus)
3F / 0C
1HR / 4G
Legion of the Kami has +1F for each other player who controls a Kami
card. “We will show you
a new way,” Hantei said. “If you offer us your loyalty, we will build a better
world together.
Focus: 3
Shinsei’s Legion (Diamond
y Lotus)
*F / 0C
1HR / 7G
Unique. After Shinsei’s Legion enters play, set its
printed Force to this Personality’s printed Force. Shinsei’s
Legion copies this Personality’s Cavalry and Naval traits. These changes last until Shinsei’s Legion leaves
play. “Shinsei met Akodo’s challenge,
to Hantei’s great amusement.” –Shiba
Focus: 3
Souls of the
Fallen (Diamond y Lotus)
2F / 0C
2HR / 2G
Spirit. This unit cannot assign to attack unless it
contains a Shugenja. Battle:
Fear 4, or Fear 2 that also affects Personalities. Shiba gasped when he saw the tormented souls that protected Gisei
Toshi. “Our dead also know the meaning of duty,” Isawa said.
Focus: 2
Student of the
Tao (Diamond y Lotus)
2F / 0C
1HR / 4G
This Personality has the Monk trait while this card is attached.
If this Personality has the printed Monk trait, you may bow Student of
the Tao instead of this Personality as a cost of casting Kihos. Shinsei was a simple man. Those who followed
him were not.
Focus: 3
The Lying
Darkness (Diamond y Lotus)
0F / 0C
0HR / 6G
Nonhuman • Nothing
• Unique. You may attach this card
from your hand to a Personality even if you do not control him. (His controller then controls this card.)
During each of your Straighten Phases, put two –1C tokens on a Personality you
control. Seven Thunders
entered the Shadowlands. One returned.
Focus: 0
Troll War Band (Diamond
y Lotus)
5F / 0C
0HR / 5G
Shadowlands •
Nonhuman • Lose 3 Honor. While Troll War Band is unbowed
in the current battle, you cannot pass. Battle: Bow this card: Give the
Province Troll War Band is at –4 Strength. Battle: Bow this card: Target
an opposing Follower or an opposing Personality with no Followers. Bow the
target.
Focus: 3
Wako (Diamond
y Lotus)
2F / 0C
0HR / 3G
Pirate • Naval. Will not enter play if you control no Naval Personalities.
Battle: Once per battle, target a
Gold-producing Holding controlled by the Defender. Raise this card’s Force to
the Holding’s printed Gold production. Bow the Holding.
Focus: 3